Garment-hook.



UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

BENJAMIN F. W'ALLAOE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666,339, dated January22, 1901.

mplication filed February 3, 1900. Serial No. 3 ,850. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F.WALLAOE, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of NewYork, (Brooklyn,) county of Kings,and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGarment-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a garment-hook provided with a flat doubledcross-arm the straight inner ear of which is turned inwardly to mergeinto the beak. The cross-arm is adapted to engage and stiffen the foldededge of the garment, while the beak is set back from the cross-arm, sothat the latter may overlap the eye which is engaged by the beak. In theaccompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improvedgarmenthook; Fig. 2, a section on line 2 2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a side viewof the hook with the goods and the eye in section; Fig. 4, a face viewshowing the engagement between hook and eye and showing the garmentclosed, and Fig. 5 a face view showing the garment open.

The garment-hook consists of a length of wire bent to form a pair ofeyes, a flat double shank, a double crossarm, and a double beakprojecting inwardly from the inner straight bar of the cross-arm. (Z (Zare the two eyes and a the double shank, from the end of which the wireprojects laterally in opposite directions to form the straight outer bar0 of the fiat double cross-arm. Thence the wire is turned first backupon itself to form the straight inner bar 0 of the double cross-arm,arranged parallel to the outer bar 0, and then the wire is bent inwardlyto merge into the double beak b, which extends beneath the double shanka. By causing the beak to project inwardly from the inner bar 0 of thecross-arm the outer bar 0 of such arm extends forwardly above said beak,and thus the beak is set back from the eye will overlap, Fig. 3, and anyobjectional gaps between the garment-flaps are avoided.

The hooks are secured to the garment-flap B in such a manner that thecross-arms c c are received within its folded front edge,while thebeaks 1) project outwardly through perforations B.

The eyes 6 may be of suitable construction and are secured to thegarment-flap A. When the garment is closed the cross-arms will thuscollectively stiffen the edge of the flap B, and as the hooks and eyesoverlap in the manner previously described gaps will be avoided betweenadjoining hooks, as well as between opposite hooks and eyes.

What I claim is- A garment-hook provided with attachingeyes, a doubleshank, a double cross-arm having parallel bars at right angles to theshank, and a double beak, all being so constructed that the shank mergesinto the outer bar of the cross-arm, and the beak merges downwardly fromthe inner bar of the same and at right angles thereto, whereby a recessis formed under the cross-arm to receive the adjoining edge of thegarment, thereby allowing the same to overlap the other edge.

Signed by me at New York city, county and State of New York, this 2d dayof February, 1900.

BENJAMIN F. WALLACE. Witnesses:

WILLIAM SOHULZ, F. v. BRIESEN.

